Barnhard Blog

This month I will try to build a multi-user weblog based on Wordpress MU (MU forums).

WordPress MU is multi-user version of the famous WordPress blogging application. It is ideal for people wanting to offer a hosted version of WordPress. Using WordPress Multi-user edition you will be able to people be able to sign up for a new blog and have them securely manage their templates and settings without affecting any other users. Only one blog per user is allowed, but you can have unlimited users, and you can have multiple users on a single blog.

I will test the website on www.bangkoktalk.tv, if you are interested to participate testing and maybe building the website you’re welcome!

More information about my motives can be found here (dutch)

While probably Marco Polo is a better known great explorer, it might be time now (in the field of land explorers) to start remembering this man, Ibn Battuta too.
With 120,000 km* of travels a far greater traveler than Polo, he undoubtely has some interesting stories to tell.
To sprint through his travels check this site or look at his dedicated fan site. (*source: Lonely Planet)

“If consumers even know there’s a DRM, what it is, and how it works, we’ve already failed” - Disney Executive.

Ow here is some gear against it.

We probably will know within the coming 2 weeks. However the developments provide interesting market info and positions. Have a read. (related older /. article)

Update 1: already some developments.
Update 2: dutch VPRO also soon on Youtube or should I say Gootube?

Have a look.

California state government is now considering more regulations on search engine companies data retention operations. Arguments go both ways, what will the outcome be?

Google Buys YouTube. It’s no rumor. (GoogTube or GooTube?)

The ultimate goal, Krekel says, is to make PyPy the Babelfish of computer programming, enabling the implementation of various languages and easy translation to different environments and platforms.

This idea must be old.
 
 

More and more laws for less civil rights in the US.

One bit of trivia that caught our eye was the elimination of habeas corpus. which apparently used to be the right of anyone who’s tossed in prison, to appear in court and say, “Hey, why am I in prison?”

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I think I have seen similar clones of this idea. We keep trying till it catches on?

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via waxy.

Because today is Columbus Day, we forgot Leif Ericson and the rest of the Indians…

Right now, smartphones are the new hotness and PDAs are old and busted. At least that’s what a new report from research firm Gartner says. During the first half of 2006, shipments of PDAs and smartphones grew 57 percent over the same period in 2005, totalling 42.1 million units. 34.7 million of those were smartphones, with the remainder PDAs.

If we don’t count the TomTom (navigational options) of PDA, would this be the trend?

AJAX and interactive web services form the backbone of “web 2.0” applications. This technological transformation brings about new challenges for security professionals.

This article looks at some of the methods, tools and tricks to dissect web 2.0 applications (including Ajax) and discover security holes using Firefox and its plugins.

Website: www.securityfocus.com

With giant Saturn hanging in the blackness and sheltering Cassini from the Sun’s blinding glare, the spacecraft viewed the rings as never before, revealing previously unknown faint rings and even glimpsing its home world.

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Our Belgium friends have gathered for a nice cometogether again (wiki), open for all your bloggers in Antwerpen yesterday. Good stuff. I couldn’t make it myself this time, but will definitely strife for the next one!

Related: Blogcom 2006.

Lawrence Lessig argues that the current media-industry and copyright system blindly push for their safeguarding and defending commercial goals in such way that they have become responsible for the destruction of the youth-culture on the Internet. He fears that the Media-industry is now pushing as far to ban music exchange and mashing altogether [jeroendb]. For example ideas as building software to kill good singing fans , kill the free availability of the song texts, mass sue youtube and myspace, introduce DRM forms that just corrupt music and more. Unsurprising there is now even a “down with drm contest” at freeculture.org.
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Give the video 2 minutes for the quote:

“O’REILLY: My biggest fear is that we become Holland, all right? That we’re the Netherlands, because that’s the vision that Soros and the press and the ACLU have. ” [Transcript]

Since Bill factual arguments are just terrible, in some way it probably is a compliment he has that fear. Just do the opposite. For the rest, let’s not spend too much time on him.

Would this solve problems for you?